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architecture and design magazineTue, 31 Mar 2015 21:00:38 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Zaha Hadid reveals animation of desert HQ for waste management companyhttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/23/zaha-hadid-architects-bee-ah-fly-through-uae/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/23/zaha-hadid-architects-bee-ah-fly-through-uae/#commentsMon, 23 Mar 2015 20:00:26 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=667579Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed a new movie showing the studio's proposal for a sand-dune-inspired building that will be the new headquarters for Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah (+ movie). First revealed in December, the firm's 7,000-square-metre building will occupy a space adjacent to Bee'ah's vast waste management centre in the United Arab Emirates. The movie […]

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed a new movie showing the studio's proposal for a sand-dune-inspired building that will be the new headquarters for Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah (+ movie).

First revealed in December, the firm's 7,000-square-metre building will occupy a space adjacent to Bee'ah's vast waste management centre in the United Arab Emirates.

The movie shows a curved structure shimmering in the heat of the desert. Cladding materials for the project have been selected for their ability to reflect the sun's rays, and help control the temperature inside the building.

The curves of the building are modelled on the shape of sand dunes, designed to help the structure withstand the extreme weather conditions experienced on the site.

"The formal composition of the new Bee'ah Headquarters building has been informed by its desert context as a series of intersecting dunes orientated to optimise the prevailing Shamal winds, and designed to provide its interiors with high-quality daylight and views whilst limiting the quantity of glazing exposed to the harsh sun," said a statement from Zaha Hadid.

The two largest "dunes" intersect at a central courtyard inside the building that helps channel natural light into the structure.

One of these shapes houses the public and management functions of the building, including the entrance lobby, an auditorium, education centre, gallery and management offices, while the other is occupied by departmental offices and a staff cafe.

A number of features have been integrated into the design to minimise the energy needed to cool the building. Developed in conjunction with engineers Atelier Ten, these include adjustable openings in the facade for natural ventilation when the weather is cool enough. Waste heat produced from air conditioning is used to help provide hot water.

The architects said the building would be part of an "entirely new approach" to recycling and waste management in the region.

"The building's structure has been developed in conjunction with Buro Happold to minimise material consumption through architectural and structural integration," said the studio. "Individual elements of the building's structure and skin are of standard orthogonal dimensions, enabling significant portions to be constructed from materials recovered from the local construction and demolition waste streams managed by Bee'ah, minimising demand for new materials."

"Bee'ah, as an organisation, is converting waste from being something that is a consumptive by- product of society to something that can be core to society's future," it added.

The building will be partially powered by energy generated at the waste management facility, as well as photovoltaic panels that are integrated into the landscape design. The rest of the site encompasses a series of rubbish processing facilities including a recycling centre for construction waste.

Other facilities include the world's third largest material recovery plant for retrieving reusable substances from rubbish, a compost plant for turning organic waste into fertiliser, and lagoons for processing liquid industrial waste and contaminated water.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/23/zaha-hadid-architects-bee-ah-fly-through-uae/feed/17Panoramic animations offer "romantic overview" of dystopian future citieshttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/18/liam-young-tomorrows-thoughts-today-architecture-future-city-dystopia-cities-dystopian-animation/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/18/liam-young-tomorrows-thoughts-today-architecture-future-city-dystopia-cities-dystopian-animation/#commentsWed, 18 Mar 2015 08:00:07 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=663322Architect Liam Young has developed a series of animated panoramas depicting visions for cities of the future, including an urban landscape exclusively owned and operated by technology brand Samsung (+ movie). Liam Young – whose studio Tomorrow's Thoughts Today operates between the realms of architecture, film and fiction – merged photographs taken on expeditions around […]

Architect Liam Young has developed a series of animated panoramas depicting visions for cities of the future, including an urban landscape exclusively owned and operated by technology brand Samsung (+ movie).

Liam Young – whose studio Tomorrow's Thoughts Today operates between the realms of architecture, film and fiction – merged photographs taken on expeditions around the world with images sourced online to produce a vision of what he described as an "exaggerated present".

Samsung city – as featured in Keeping Up Appearances

"The New City project is a demonstration of the way that I work as a speculative architect," Young told Dezeen. "I construct alternative worlds as a means to understand our own world in new ways."

The three imaginary skylines exaggerate current trends such as the proliferation of advertising and the problems associated with land fill, to give a sense of how these issues could evolve to affect the appearance of future metropolises.

Samsung city

Each of the speculative cities is accompanied by a short story written by science fiction authors Jeff Noon, Tim Maughan and Pat Cadigan, which create a narrative based around the characteristics of the landscapes.

Samsung city

An accompanying soundtrack produced by electronic musicians Coldcut adds a further ambient dimension to the experience of observing the flickering lights and shifting fog of the films, which are intended to be projected on very large scale so the viewer has to move around to see everything.

Edgelands

"Each animation is loaded with detail so as each time it is watched you might discover something different," Young added. "The scale of the projections mean you are able to fully immerse yourself in the imaginary city, and consumed by the soundscape you can sit and read the short story set in the city."

The panoramic format was chosen to give the animations a sense of scope and realism, as being viewed from "the top of a hill, or a winding mountain road where you can look out over the city unfolding below you."

The City in the Sea

"Most cities offer this romantic overview," explained Young, "a spot to make out, sit on the hood of your car, have a drink. This type of vantage point is where we get a sense of our cities. It was important to reference this sort of panoramic relationship to urban form."

The animations were shown from October 2014 to January this year at the Z33 contemporary art gallery in Hasselt, Belgium, as part of an exhibition titled Future Fiction, which explored different tools and methods for thinking about and visualising the future.

Young wants to collaborate with more science fiction authors to develop the New City project into a much larger collection of animations that will broaden our understanding of the systems and technologies that define today's cities.

Here are descriptions of the three cities from Young:

Samsung city

Samsung city is stitched together from photos of the residential developments seen on expeditions in Korea and Hong Kong, where Samsung have branched out from technology products to move into property development. We see a town where tech brands have become so big that they enter into all aspects of our lives, and brand allegiances shape a new form of patriotism.

Edgelands

Edgelands is based on an expedition through the built infrastructure of the internet, following the fibre optic cable of America’s network to Prineville, Oregon, a town exploiting cheap energy and tax incentives, where Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple have built massive data centres. This part of New City is built for machines, it is the physical landscape of the cloud, our generation's cultural landscape.

The City in the Sea

The City in the Sea is a multicultural city collaged from photos taken on expeditions through the outsourcing territories of India and China. The floating corporate city is built on the Pacific Ocean garbage patch and drifts in international waters, outside of national labour laws to become a free trade zone supporting the mega companies based on land.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/18/liam-young-tomorrows-thoughts-today-architecture-future-city-dystopia-cities-dystopian-animation/feed/10Renzo Piano joins Rogers Stirk Harbour and Wilkinson Eyre for Sydney harbour overhaulhttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/11/renzo-piano-sydney-harbour-overhaul-towers-barangaroo-south-waterfront/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/11/renzo-piano-sydney-harbour-overhaul-towers-barangaroo-south-waterfront/#commentsWed, 11 Mar 2015 16:33:22 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=660641Renzo Piano has become the latest architect to contribute a design to the major redevelopment of Sydney's Barangaroo South waterfront (+ movie). The Italian architect has designed a pair of residential high-rises for the £3 billion harbour regeneration project, which also includes skyscraper proposals by British firms Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Wilkinson Eyre. […]

Renzo Piano has become the latest architect to contribute a design to the major redevelopment of Sydney's Barangaroo South waterfront (+ movie).

The Italian architect has designed a pair of residential high-rises for the £3 billion harbour regeneration project, which also includes skyscraper proposals by British firms Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Wilkinson Eyre.

Developer Lend Lease confirmed rumours that Renzo Piano was to be involved in the project in an official announcement last Friday. His two buildings, named One Sydney Harbour, represent the final contribution to the site masterplan, which has now been submitted to the New South Wales planning department for approval.

"The revised concept plan represents an exciting vision for one of the most significant harbour projects in Sydney's history," said Andrew Wilson, managing director of Lend Lease's Barangaroo South team.

The Barangaroo scheme will create over seven hectares of public space, which Wilson said will include "complete harbour-front access and vibrant community space". A park, waterfront promenade and plaza are also proposed.

"We have ensured that all of the public benefits that we originally proposed in our 2010 plan remain," he said.

Construction has already begun on International Towers Sydney – a trio of commercial towers designed by Richard Rogers' firm to create 280,000 square metres of office space.

Work is also underway on two low-rise apartment blocks known as Anadara and Alexander, designed by Australian practices FJMT and PTW Architects respectively.

The tallest building in the development will be Wilkinson Eyre's 235-metre-high Crown Sydney Hotel Resort. The firm won a competition in 2013 to design the building, with a nature-inspired design that architect Paul Baker describes as "three petal forms which twist and rise together".

The project has faced some opposition, with several critics questioning whether the site previously known as East Darling Harbour is suitable for this scale of development. In 2011, Richard Rogers was forced to defend the scheme when an architect branded it "the worst of Dubai".

But Wilson said the project will allow Barangaroo to come to life: "This unique site is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create something truly special for Sydney".

If approved, One Sydney Harbour will be Piano's second project in Australia, following the mixed-use Aurora Place complex the architect completed beside Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens in 2000.

Another waterfront redevelopment is also proposed elsewhere in the city – OMA, Hassell and Populous are working together to redevelop Sydney's convention, exhibition and entertainment precinct at Darling Harbour.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/11/renzo-piano-sydney-harbour-overhaul-towers-barangaroo-south-waterfront/feed/1Dubai unveils vision for Museum of the Future to showcase innovation in designhttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/06/dubai-museum-of-the-future-innovation-design-oval-shaped/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/06/dubai-museum-of-the-future-innovation-design-oval-shaped/#commentsFri, 06 Mar 2015 14:26:13 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=657925An oval museum filled with robots and other technological inventions has been scheduled for construction in Dubai (+ movie). Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, revealed plans this week for the Museum of the Future – an institution dedicated to innovation in design and technology. Related story: Zaha Hadid […]

An oval museum filled with robots and other technological inventions has been scheduled for construction in Dubai (+ movie).

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, revealed plans this week for the Museum of the Future – an institution dedicated to innovation in design and technology.

The Dubai ruler said on Twitter that the museum will be "a destination for the best and brightest inventors and entrepreneurs", offering an "integrated environment empowering creative minds to test, fund and market ideas for futuristic prototypes and services".

Set for completion in 2017, the museum will be located beside the Emirates Towers on Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road. The name of the architect has not yet been revealed.

A two-minute movie fly-through reveals designs for a hollow oval structure, with a holographic billboard at its centre. Steel panels will clad its exterior, inscribed with some of Sheikh Mohammed's Arabic poetry.

Large sections of the structure are also expected to be built using 3D-printed components.

The building's motto will be "See the future, create the future". It is expected to bring together inventors, designers and researchers, presenting a range of technologies in automotives, robotics, genetics and more.

"The Museum of the Future will be an incubator for ideas and real designs, a driver for innovation and a global destination for inventors and entrepreneurs,” said Sheikh Mohammad at the launch.

"The world is entering a new era of accelerated knowledge and great technological revolutions," he added. "We aim to lead in that era, not to follow and lag behind. The Museum of the Future is the first step of many to come, marking the beginning of great achievements."

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/06/dubai-museum-of-the-future-innovation-design-oval-shaped/feed/9Google's new HQ will be "more like a workshop than a corporate office" says Bjarke Ingelshttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/05/bjarke-ingels-interview-movie-google-california-hq-thomas-heatherwick-workshop/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/05/bjarke-ingels-interview-movie-google-california-hq-thomas-heatherwick-workshop/#commentsThu, 05 Mar 2015 19:13:09 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=657342Exclusive: in this exclusive interview, BIG founder Bjarke Ingels talks about the spectacular new HQ he is co-designing for Google, which wants to set a new industry standard for workplace design and help define "Google 2.0" (+ movie). Speaking to Dezeen today, Ingels said that he and project collaborator Thomas Heatherwick were creating a campus […]

Exclusive: in this exclusive interview, BIG founder Bjarke Ingels talks about the spectacular new HQ he is co-designing for Google, which wants to set a new industry standard for workplace design and help define "Google 2.0" (+ movie).

Speaking to Dezeen today, Ingels said that he and project collaborator Thomas Heatherwick were creating a campus that would be "more like a workshop than a corporate office".

Ingels said that the new headquarters, dubbed "Google 2.0", would build on the tech giant's reputation for innovative office design, following in the footsteps of the Googleplex – which saw Google ditch the office cubicle for the first time.

"Everybody knew that they had foosball and slides and beanbags and snacks," said Ingels.

"What came from that pioneering experience has become the new established way of doing things, and one of Google's ambitions with this project was to do it again. The Google workplace 1.0 has become the industry standard and there is a genuine ambition to try to look at the Google 2.0."

Silicon Valley's two other big tech companies – Apple and Facebook – also have new campuses underway, with designs by architectural heavyweights Norman Foster and Frank Gehry. But Ingels suggested that Google North Bayshore would be the one that will become a model for the workplace of the future.

"In this case, both Heatherwick and ourselves had the feeling that we were working with a client that was constantly setting the goal way further then we were used to," said Ingels.

"Our job, rather than trying to stretch everybody's imagination, was to actually try to land someone's imagination in a way that would be buildable and doable."

Ingels and Heatherwick, both still in their 40s, have been working on the project for just under a year. Their proposal involves not only buildings, but trees, landscaping, cafes, and bike paths, all sheltered beneath the network of canopies.

"Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm," said Ingels.

"It has had a tremendous impact on social space and how to do commerce and interact with people, but not so much in the physical realm. Our ambition with Google now is to see if some of that energy and some of that intelligence can now be invested in our physical environment."

Bjarke Ingels

The full interview with Bjarke Ingels will be published as a series of movies on Dezeen over the coming weeks.